Sentences with phrase «for nefarious purposes»

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

That report, crafted by a panel chaired by Gerald Fink, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, emerged out of worries that the results of some research, such as work on the transmissibility of pathogens, could be used for nefarious purposes by terrorists.

But this is not, in and of itself, an activity that could only be done for nefarious purposes.

Ever wonder what would happen if Tim Cook decided to go evil and use everyone's iPhone data for nefarious purposes?

But some security experts say that this argument about whether the data was being sold to a third party for nefarious purposes or not misses the point: that HIV data is highly sensitive, and that sharing it with any outside companies is a move away from the security of its users.

Flashman didn't always find suitable organs for his nefarious purposes though: in the Tory Party Osborne has.

To be clear, we are not aware of a single verified instance of anyone having a chip implanted at birth for a nefarious purpose or otherwise.

For the first seven years of her career, she pulled black cats from the floor two weeks before Halloween and two weeks after, worried that people who adopted them at that time were doing so for nefarious purposes.

[E] very time a company installs a new patch from Microsoft to fix major flaws, it's worth bearing in mind that someone may have just used that vulnerability for nefarious purposes.

The Swiss Army Knife of cryptocurrency platforms, our collection of features and smart contracts can be used to provide solutions for hundreds of different decentralized service use - cases directly on the blockchain and our hardened smart contracts can not be compromised for nefarious purposes like some turing - complete platforms.

You seem to be conflating the term «hack» meaning to exploit a system for nefarious purposes with the term «hack» meaning changing or improving a system to better suit the users needs.

Even more importantly, though, if someone tries to use emotional intelligence for nefarious purposes, your EI can help you identify this — and take appropriate action to counter.

Malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, scareware, spyware, cryptocurrency miners, adware, and other programs intended to exploit computer resources for nefarious purposes.

So, remember, there are plenty of people out there who will try to use emotional influence for nefarious purposes.

Unfortunately, this technology is already being used by nonexperts for nefarious purposes, including inserting the faces of celebrities into pornographic videos, creating, in some instances, very convincing and disturbing results.

Ouisa Capital encourages FINRA to use its position in the regulation of securities to help pursue the increase of issuer thresholds under Regulation CF.. We encourage FINRA to raise with the SEC the possibility of increasing the issuer threshold on a twelve month pilot basis to evaluate whether the increase achieves the desired effect of increasing capital formation while protecting the investing public from unscrupulous issuers that could use Regulation CF for nefarious purposes.

However, the juxtaposition between her apparent happiness and our expectations of traumatic stress and mourning in the wake of personal tragedy served as grist for conspiracy theorists who claim that she is a crisis actor and the murder was staged for some nefarious purpose or other.

Second, Finch realizes that corrupt parties within the government seek to use the Machine for nefarious purposes.

This is all the more important in an election year where a section of the population can hang on the extra judicial Public Comment of a judge for nefarious purposes.

He also emphasizes that the project's findings are being posted and written up in regular academic journals — not funneled to any government overlord for some nefarious purpose.

Neither voluntary identity - sharing via social networks nor device fingerprinting can address this issue, leaving scammers and spammers free to continue using email for their nefarious purposes.

It remains to be seen whether online mischief makers — already producing fake viral content — will use AI - generated images or videos for nefarious purposes.

Thankfully, MarkMonitor has been fighting back against phishing scams across the web by giving businesses the tools to detect and block the fraudulent links that use top brand names for nefarious purposes.

Ray later discovers that his dad and grandfather are located inside of the pavilion; his dad, Eddie, has become mesmerized by O'Hara and subject to their whims, while Lloyd suspects that O'Hara may want to use the balls for nefarious purposes, and tries to put a definitive end to those plans.

This vessel belongs to a corporation called Energyne, which has been carrying on the banned research for nefarious purposes.

Instead the film takes an almost Batman Beyond approach with Hank being retired and recruiting cat burglar Scott Lang to take on the mantle of the Ant - Man to stop a former apprentice from developing the Pym Particles for nefarious purposes.

Thomas, et al. are confined to a military compound in an undisclosed location, until their overseers put them in the field for nefarious purposes.

Deadpool is the product of an evil government experiment to create super-somethings for some nefarious purpose.

Scarlett Johansson, in her best work to date, stars as an enigmatic young woman who drives around Scotland in a van, picking up men for nefarious purposes.

None of this information based on your search patterns is being used by the company for nefarious purposes.

A caveat about adoption screening is a variation of what always comes up when we talk about free or reduced - fee adoptions, as is the concern that pets will be acquired for nefarious purposes.

It is a sad truth that there are bad people out there looking for free animals for nefarious purposes.

Whatever the reasons for the sudden infamy, the unwanted publicity not only caused problems for the vast majority of well - behaved pits, but actually encouraged unscrupulous individuals to deliberately purchase and breed pit bulls and similar looking dogs for nefarious purposes.

The evil Cruella deVille kidnapped bright - eyed Dalmatians for nefarious purposes, and Dalmatians made it into the top 10 breeds registered by the American Kennel Club.

I'm curious how they plan on using this tech for their nefarious purposes.

Cranky's extra muscle will be needed, as the Kongs must face a new threat in the form of The Snowmads, who have frozen DK Island for nefarious purposes, I'm sure.

The premise was pretty straightforward: Ultratech, your standard evil supercorporation, was holding a fighting tournament for nefarious purposes.

And the officers themselves are as complex as they are in real life; do they lead to safety and fight crime or use their power for nefarious purposes?

[PS] This post also promulgates the idea that temperature record is adjusted for some nefarious purpose (effectively an accusation of fraud).

The scientific endeavor is messy and can be distorted for nefarious purposes, but it is not monolithic.

So there is an outside chance that someone could be scamming the service to somehow lift passwords and logins for nefarious purposes.

The Creep Catchers are a loosely affiliated group of people whose stated purpose is to expose online predators, particularly those who will then arrange to meet with children for nefarious purposes.

A part of me still harbours the concern that strangers will use my kids» photos for nefarious purposes.

Although these databases may make it easier for the authorities to identify those that have used Bitcoin for nefarious purposes, there are many that think they infringe on personal rights.

Combine this with the inherent anonymity of transactions, and you have an ideal medium of exchange for nefarious purposes.